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Post by Cyno on Sept 30, 2021 13:07:42 GMT -5
I loved the promo both for Arn's sincerity in delivering it and also the absurdity.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Sept 30, 2021 13:17:46 GMT -5
Twitter is having a field day with this and I’m all for it
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Sept 30, 2021 13:20:51 GMT -5
The promo did give me some thoughts on why bringing up guns in wrestling is really stupid.
Wrestling is all about dudes fighting each other either to prove their superiority, to avenge wrongs, or to satiate their hatred. These motivations bring wrestlers to blows and motivate them to posture and brag about how great they are. It's all paid off in fights, which are portrayed as either contests of skill or angry bloodbaths; in either case, the match's violence is constrained to props and ideas that work within pro wrestling. Anything wrestlers do to one another has to be survivable, both in the practical sense that they're staging it, and in the fictional sense that our sense of disbelief has to be suspended because we know there won't be an intentional murder in the ring. (...hopefully.) Lethal tactics can still be used, such as asphyxiation, but always with the understanding that it's not actually going to go very far or get more graphic than bloody faces.
The second you bring up guns, it's like you're flipping over the table and wrecking the game board. It reminds everyone that the hatred between any two wrestlers is only going to escalate within the genre conventions where the worst thing you can do to someone is make their back bleed. It also makes whoever says it sound kind of like a loser, since we're all invested in seeing a fictional test of skill and here's someone bragging that they'd forego it and use a weapon that trivializes the whole contest.
And Arn made it even more clear by using graphic detail that's beyond any violence that will be seen in a wrestling ring, which draws attention to just how jarring it is and how much it breaks the suspension of disbelief.
All of which makes it great to goof on.
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Post by Cieto on Sept 30, 2021 13:41:16 GMT -5
Double A with some heat!
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Sept 30, 2021 13:49:29 GMT -5
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Sept 30, 2021 13:53:06 GMT -5
This was really dumb and cringe worthy, I’m surprised it seems to be popular. I think it's mainly due to just out of freaking nowhere it was. Nobody expected Arn calling Cody a loser to verge into admitting he shot someone.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Sept 30, 2021 14:03:49 GMT -5
This was really dumb and cringe worthy, I’m surprised it seems to be popular. It’s because we love a good meme round here. I mean…everyone does…but FAN especially… For further studying I submit; Batista/basketballs Chris Masters/sombrero Booker T & Scott Hall painting Mox/Hobo Marvez/The Dark Lord Forbidden Door/Cocaine Cody/Homelander
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Post by Bo Rida on Sept 30, 2021 14:22:04 GMT -5
He's the enforcer. What did everybody think that meant?
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 30, 2021 14:40:24 GMT -5
This was really dumb and cringe worthy, I’m surprised it seems to be popular. It’s because we love a good meme round here. I mean…everyone does…but FAN especially… For further studying I submit; Batista/basketballs Chris Masters/sombrero Booker T & Scott Hall painting Mox/Hobo Marvez/The Dark Lord Forbidden Door/Cocaine Cody/Homelander Paige Here Bret Hart/El Dandy Wildcard, Bitches IT Gif/Wrestling Meme Compilation Chuck Taylor can't say "shit"
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Sept 30, 2021 15:03:35 GMT -5
It’s because we love a good meme round here. I mean…everyone does…but FAN especially… For further studying I submit; Batista/basketballs Chris Masters/sombrero Booker T & Scott Hall painting Mox/Hobo Marvez/The Dark Lord Forbidden Door/Cocaine Cody/Homelander Paige Here Bret Hart/El Dandy Wildcard, Bitches IT Gif/Wrestling Meme Compilation Chuck Taylor can't say "shit" The IT Gifs & Forbidden Door/Cocaine are my products achievements in the…14 years (!!)…I think…I’ve posted here 😂
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Post by FinalGwen on Sept 30, 2021 15:32:49 GMT -5
Nyla is having a lot of fun with this on Twitter.
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 30, 2021 15:34:07 GMT -5
Arn "Frank Reynolds" Anderson
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Post by flowercity on Sept 30, 2021 15:52:38 GMT -5
Obviously the glock line was stellar but I loved at the end when he said “I’m Arn Anderson, and all that that implies.” What a simple yet captive line to end that promo.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 30, 2021 16:33:45 GMT -5
I didn't love the promo, but the line "I'm Arn Anderson, and all that that implies" is awesome.
I think Arn might be the new Murder Grandpa
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Post by Andy Martin on Sept 30, 2021 16:56:37 GMT -5
Arn should come out with a teardrop tattoo after that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2021 16:59:57 GMT -5
I think a great part about this promo is Arn saying "I'm Arn Anderson and all that it implies." Arn is a special breed of wrestler who's name just instantly makes you know who he is. It holds weight even in his old age. Arn Anderson doing something like that just makes you think "well man that's Arn Anderson, he ain't no bitch, you think he'd give the car up?" which makes his words hit harder. It fits.
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Post by Viking Hall on Sept 30, 2021 17:05:16 GMT -5
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 30, 2021 17:08:46 GMT -5
I have rarely been as caught off guard by a promo as I was by this one. I felt like Arn splattered MY brains out. I don't know if it's good OR bad.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 30, 2021 17:10:17 GMT -5
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Post by XIII on Sept 30, 2021 17:19:53 GMT -5
Straight out of Georgia, crazy motherf***er named Arn Anderson. From a gang called the four horsemen When I go off, I grab my pistol Four in the clip and two in the skull
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